Famous Quotes

"For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art."

"Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle."

"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."

"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."

"Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story."

"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."

"It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change."

"Paper is more patient than man."

"Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great."

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."

"And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out."

"Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there."

"We just had a near-life experience!"

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil."

"Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are."

"Life is not fair get used to used to it"

"Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us."

"Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne....Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be."

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too."

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."